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Last year Pietertje Vriend Wagenaar was honored with the Gold Medal 2018 and thus became the 2019 peony of the year (this year the award went to Angel Emily). For me it was a bit unexpected as I would have chosen
1 CommentAn article about peony growing in warmer and colder climates to lengthen the season at both sides.
1 CommentIn vitro shoot multiplication and rooting of wild Paeonia officinalis L., subsp. officinalishttps://doi.org/10.17660/eJHS.2018/83.3.1#eJHS_journal
Geplaatst door International Society for Horticultural Science – ISHS op Vrijdag 6 juli 2018
Somewhat different to most peonies when sprouting. Paeonia tenuifolia first, then P. brownii a few days later compared to the earlier posted image and finally the already finely dissected young foliage of P. decomposita.
Site came crashing down last night. Didn’t have time to fix it then, but back online now. Automatic peony news gathering took too much memory on the server, hopefully the increase given now will make it run smoothly.
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I’ve had signs of this same sort of speckled pigmentation show up in some of my herbaceous hybrid seedlings. Nothing as dramatic as happened with ‘The Fawn’ but it does seem like a phenomenon which can show up in other instances too.
Bob Johnson